Looking Awry. An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Slavoj Žižek

This brilliant work by Slavoj Žižek, one of the most prominent philosophers of our time, a representative of the Ljubljana school of Lacanian psychoanalysis, which first saw the light of day in 1991, is an unparalleled introduction to the "dogmatics" of the teachings of Jacques Lacan, who during his lifetime gained a reputation as a challenging thinker to understand.

Mercilessly exploiting popular culture - from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Cemetery to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead - she uses them as handy reference material to explain the core concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, making them accessible even to the untrained reader. What is the "Big Other" and object petit a? How to understand Lacan's phrase "Woman does not exist" and why "those who do not allow themselves to be deceived are mistaken"? Slavoj Žižek's "Slant View" is like an exciting descent on an intellectual roller coaster.

Each of his pages captures attention with an avalanche of ideas, insightful observations, and originality of interpretations, convincingly proving that immersion in philosophy does not have to be a tedious activity and that Lacanian psychoanalysis is not a fresh study theory, but an insightful living teaching that helps us better understand ourselves and the world of other people around us.